Morning all.
When Arsene Wenger finally departed, it was meant to be the beginning of a new era, better football, improved coaching with a defence which looked like it knew what it was doing. We’d snapped up old ‘Diamond Eyes’ and Raul Sanllehi to bring a bit of Barcelona and Dortmund through the door and then most of the old coaching staff were booted out too. Happy days.
Now here we are just a few months later and it looks like we’re in just as big a mess as we were. Sven Mislintat is rumoured to be on his way through the exit door, we’re broke and no one seems to really have a clue what’s going on.
At times like this it’s tough for us fans as there’s so much speculation out there in this wonderful world of the internet. Raul Sanllehi and Sven Mislintat have apparently fallen out over the choice of player they want to bring to the club, Emery has disagreed with one or both of them too, depending on which story you read but of course, it’s possible that no such thing has or is going on at all.
Added to the above, we read headlines about how Emery wants Ozil out this month and at any cost, Ramsey is signing for Juventus and Elneny, who just because a couple of days ago wrote something on social media about the day he signed for the club, is leaving this month too. NewsNow is awash with idle gossip.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not overly fussed who departs the club really, certainly not the senior players, as long as they are replaced with someone better because none of them are pulling out all the stops on a match day. Actually, Torreira and Guendouzi, I like those two. Lacazette too, and Bellerin. I think that’s about it. Seriously, if the club had £200m to spend and could generate more from sales, whoever is responsible for signing new players could have a field day.
Whilst all this cloak and dagger stuff is going on though, one would like to think there’s a plan which is already playing out. Where the club aims to be in two, four and six years time. The finances, contracts, player sales and signings. Was Unai Emery a long term plan or was he simply brought in to steady the ship. Not that he’s doing much steadying right now. Totally the opposite I’d say which is probably why the rumblings about sacking him are already across social media and other Arsenal forums/blogs.
In my opinion, Arsenal fans put up with watching predictable football for a long time before saying enough is enough and instead of rolling up at The Emirates for a home match, they stayed away. This time, I don’t think it’ll take long for something similar to happen.
But what then though, appoint a different manager and hope he can sort our troubles on the pitch out? Why not, it’s what other clubs do unless they get the right one in in the first place and that doesn’t happen very often. How many managers did City get through before landing Pep? Utd still haven’t managed to find the right person. Liverpool and Totts, ok they look as if they’ve finally got the right managers for their respective clubs but still, what have they actually won lately? Chelsea, we’ll they chop and change depending on which way the wind blows. As for the rest in the Premier League, apart from Bournemouth and Eddie Howe, it’s like a managerial merry go round.
I’d like to think that the board/staff at Arsenal have a plan, logic alone would suggest they have and just because we aren’t privy to such information, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are just going from day to day, drifting along.
Multimillionaires don’t get to where they are by drifting along, because that can lose them money. Kroenke might not choose to invest his own money into the squad but he sure as heck won’t want to see the value of his shares decrease either, no more than he’ll want The Emirates faithful turn on him.
There has to be a plan surely, we’re just not seeing it yet.
Or am I being far too optimistic…..?
Have a good one guys.
Morning Rico. If you’ve got no money to spend then it’s hard to have a positive plan in football I imagine.
Good morning,
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There has to be a plan surely, we’re just not seeing it yet.
Or am I being far too optimistic…..?
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Just faar tooo optimistic IMHO. What many see is utter chaos, lack of direction, no public long term plan and good people all leaving the club. WE are now competing with the likes of Everton and West Ham on funding and team composition. Or just me being pessimistic, sigh!
Are the rats abandoning the sinking ship?
Maybe.
It’s the most uncertain of times most of us have seen with the club, I reckon.
Morning all.
Morning Adam.
I wondered if the club aren’t overly convinced about our summer signings and any potential ones so they just pulled the plug on the money. It was such a late move and contradiction to what had been written before I think.
Bnsb, it’s probably somewhere between the two.
Are you calling Ramsey a rat Scott? 😜
https://www.skysports.com/unaiemery
Touché Rico 🙂
He’d stay even now I reckon if the offer was sorted.
I think he would too Scott, but it seems he’s not our future.
I’m not going to call Ramsey a rat, but remember he was pretty cutthroat when he joined us and dumped Man Utd’s offer.
He’s just doing what most of our big players of the last 10 years have done. They’ve looked at the club and realised they could earn more elsewhere and have a better chance of silverware. As a fan it’s painful but as a career building move leaving Arsenal has made sense for top players for 10 years now.
Or win more Hobart? To be fair to Ramsey, he wanted to stay.
Morning all and thanks Rico for another classy post.
No idea what`s happening at the club and the Sven thing is a shock if true, hope we have someone else lined up who can spot a good one as that`s what we need with our financial situation.
Scott from last post, I think you`ll find that although a lot of our younsters have African names a lot of them are from London area ……………Nelson, Eddie, Saka, Amaechi all Londoners ! 🙂
Thanks Lc.
I find the Sven thing odd too. If it’s true, there has to be a falling out somewhere. It can’t be about lack of money I’d have thought.
LC,
I know, but just talking about youngsters in general.
Bellerin, Szczesney, Fabregas to name a few are guys we had at 16 or so.
It’s be great to see a crop come through and stick together.
Rico, it could well be the lack of money he has to spend 🙂
That’s what I meant Scott but isn’t he the guy to spot players before they cost large amounts?
Apparently so, Rico.
Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall at the club?
Indeed I would. Reading NewsNow, you’d think some of the writers are… 😂
Another theory ! hahaha
When it was just Wenger doing everything, it was just one big ego and the only falling out would be with his mirror !
Now we have Raul, Vish( is that his name ?…………you know who I mean), Sven and now talk of Edu aswell !……………………too many cooks ?……………..to many egos ?…………………bound to be some noses(Steves Bruce style) put out of joint !
Afternoon Gooners
Afternoon Rico, isn’t Steve Morrow in charge of a lot of the scouting?
We have the Stat DNA guys, maybe we just had too many people trying to secure their positions at the club?
And do we really need Edu?
What would his role be and who is currently doing it now?
There might be a plan somewhere but I’m not seeing it…
Morning all.
According to the Telegraph Misinlat feels he’s being marginalised as the club is determined to employ a Director of Football, aka Edu. The football procuror’s job will therefore decrease in importance and direction plus a lot of duplication. I expect he told the club, “it’s him or me!” So, Edu arrives,Sven will be down the road. Waste of a talented spotter!
Afternoon Kev, I’ve no idea re Morrow.
Good point re the stat dna, I forgot that. Edu and Reyes apparently but it’s possibly just speculation. Edu was rumoured for the DOF role but I thought that’s Rauls remit.
No wonder I’m confused… 😜
Youth scout Kev, just looked him up.
G’day to you all.
Nothing on the Arsenal website, so it is all speculation, and Mislintat is just a scout not a forty goal a season striker or a ‘keeper who has never in his career conceded a goal.
When we look at the players signed, we have Aubameyang a record transfer fee paid and no sell on value. Mkhitaryan, high wage for little return and, again, no sell on value. Lichtsteiner, initially quite good but really the Premiership is beyond his capabilities and, yet again, no sell on value. Sokratis, competent centre back but, once more, no sell on value. Guendouzi, an exciting prospect but not a World beater….yet. more than likely not a Mislintat find. Torreira, the one exception, bargain price, precisely the player we’ve been crying out for since Gilberto left.
Meatloaf sang about how two out of three ain’t bad, but one out of five ain’t good.
Perhaps the board have decided that “Diamond Eyes” is rather more fake jewellery and not worth the money.
K.C.A.C.O. 😉
Cheers Rico, there does seem an enormous group of people working behind the scenes, Head of this, Director of that, Wenger must have done it all, no wonder he just ran out of steam.
We have all these ‘experts’ and nothing seems to have got better.
I can’t say that I feel terribly confident that we have the right people in charge.
How much do they care about Arsenal, how much are they invested in the club?
Is just a job to them after all?
Re Sky Sports article, Emery talks well like Wenger 🙂
We have all these ‘experts’ and nothing seems to have got better.
Aah, management by committee?
Me too, I’d like to think there is a plan. But arsenal matters don’t always sum up. We enjoyed stability and had class in the way we sorted out things. Apart from the football itself, which was not going well, every other thing fitted in nice and proper. But now, not only are we coping with a new lethargic and uninspiring play, we are every day in the news for the wrong reasons – Ramsey leaving, Lacazette tantrums, no money in arsenal, selling our big players for next to nothing,, Emery’s childish ways of handling the Ozil matter, and now Mislinstat rumoured departure. How much more can our club take? These are really sad times to be an arsenal supporter!!!
The players themselves look uninterested and one wonders wherevthe team that played Chelsea earlier in the season has gone to. Either the toxicity in the club is getting to the players or they are not motivated enough.
Kev, I wonder how we compare to other club setups, there’s certainly a lot of wages being dished out…
Daniel, we are halfway through the season, we have been racked with injuries, consequently many are having to play out of position, they are showing their fatigue, they are having to cope with a changed training regime and new tactics. I don’t think Emery has once been able to field the same eleven in consecutive matches. None of the above is conducive to settled football.
Our chief scout is rumoured to be leaving, that’s no big deal.
The club has to live, and operate on self generated revenue. A couple of players are deemed to be surplus to Emery’s requirements, that is not reason enough to warrant the hysterical outpourings both on the web and in the sports media.
With the number of changes in both the playing staff, backroom staff and senior management it is hardly likely that everything was going to run smoothly from day one. Give it a bit of time and I’m sure all will be well.
Arsenal have not entered the end of days.
Just read two things on newsnow of interest…………………….
1) Edu is not interested and wants to stay with his Brazil job, so that was basically ……………much Edu about nothing !
2) ………Upskirting is set to become illegal in England and Wales after legislation cleared its final legal hurdle ………………notice that it didn`t mention Scotland !…………can you imagine how pissed off the sweaty socks would be if they couldn`t wear a kilt and show off their tackle !……………..enough to drive them to drink !
There’s an old phrase of “Too many chiefs and not enough Indians ” and that’s not a comment on Vinai Venkatesham who has to join the list of chiefs .
But we do seem to have made a lot of appointments in the upper echelons and in my knowledge of such organisations when you appoint a higher level of people they always need a lower level to do their bidding .
In the case of a football team results are measured on the pitch not in the board room and we appear to be shuffling the deckchairs rather than sorting the team.
Cicero, even if for anything we agree to what you said, are we the only club? Every club has its issues but some are out performing others. We applauded the engagement of Mislinstat, suddenly, he has become expendable. Our team cannot do basic defending and you are talking of injury. Did it start today. Solksjaer was engaged by ManU who were shipping in more goals than us and that has been sorted out. For Mourinho, same defenders were not good.and he kept wishing for worldclass defenders
I have this feeling that Emmery is confused right now and I believe only time will tell. He doesn’t need a whole season to organise a defence and make his team play properly. Even when we say he needs time, what fans generally mean by that is the time to get results aginst the Liverpools, ManCs of this world, mot to play tepid football against Brighton, Southampton and West Ham
Dont know what Solksjaer has done, Daniel, but if I was to guess, he has probably turned first line of defense as attack !……………………….Man C, Liverpool, Spuds all press with pace, power and consistant intensity !
Man U are attacking more which means less time defending !
Dick was supposed to press with intensity, but probably on the looks of it using an ironing board !…………………his shirts look nice and neat !
Daniel, how much is truth though? We know the media like to make things up re Arsenal.
Daniel, I said earlier this week that comparisons between Arsenal and Man U are like comparing chalk and cheese. Man U had a very good squad who, for whatever reason, stopped performing for Mourinho. Solskjaer has convinced them that their best option is to play for the club and it’s supporters.
Our squad was way below that standard and efforts have been made to improve it but that will need time.
Good point, Potter.
Probably the definition of us being firstly a company and secondly a football team.
Working for so many compaies in the past and they all loved to make up these poncy job titles that they didn`t need and just pay someone to sit on their arse !…………………..in my experience all the shop floor workers knew more about the business and jobs they did than the big money university graduates who knew fcuk all………………apart from having a nice shiny diploma or something !
An example was working for Ambrosia where they piad 100`s 0f 1000`s of pounds for this Japanese guy to try and help with production technigues and all along the workers had the same if not better ideas !…………………..it seemed beneath them to listen to us commoners !
All these appointments !……………….we will see what if any effect they have on the playing field !………………………….maybe Raul is a decent Centre Half ! hahaha
Another interesting item on newsnow !………………………….
Wales has the highest imprisonment rate in western Europe, new research has claimed .
Ties in nicely with my comment at 2:41pm about Upskirting !……………………….Taffs Upskirting Sheep is also an offence !
I reckon I could alleviate some of our defensive issues with one simple instruction-stop playing out from the back!!!!
Morning all.
As for Sven leaving NOT being a major problem, I agree that in itself, it’s not, but what does it represent?
Does he see the writing on the wall?
Did Ivan?
I could be wrong, but it’s a worry.
Aparrently there is some from Ornstein about current stuff.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46886457
Sven leaving in itself is not an issue. As long as the theory and practice of his work continues. MainIy buy young and unknown, develop and sell. Don’t waste precious resources by buying or selling badly.
So far the only ? Mark against him is Mkhitaryan, all the other deals he’s done have been good.
What worries me is we get stuck in a situation where we pander to the manager and buy for the short term to the detriment of the long term.
We won’t know the path we’ve chosen until the window closes, but some of the things we’ve been rumoured to be doing aren’t that smart.
ElNeny already said goodbye to Arsenal on the Arsenal website.
Morning guys.
New post up now.